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Sorry it took a while to get back to this -- I just got back from the supercollider symposium at Wesleyan U. and I was super-busy in the weeks leading up to it.
Yes, I'll be there at least for workshop day. Not sure how much longer I'll be able to stay. Going to the SC symposium cost more than I expected (it was the food that caught me by surprise), so now I have to think carefully about my budget for that one. Would be nice to meet in person, if possible.
James
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How late does your workshop go? I am driving out that day, if I set myself a target arrival time, then I'll be there in time to come see you.
They are probably going to let me turn my poster presentation into an interacticve demo + poster -- same table real estate, but much more interesting, I'd think. Students and I are now doing a Scrabble-to-MIDI translator using General MIDI under Java's fairly extensive MIDI library, and you can get some pretty funky music out of the thing.
I am starting to see how to design a game to use musical relationships as the game rules themselves, so that the thing comes full circle. Glass Beads on perhaps the surface of a 3D sphere. It seems one could do an interactive game that serves as a tutorial in harmony and rhythm theory, maybe more. Hope to get some time this summer to work on it.
I'll definitely shoot for getting to Pittsburgh in time to see you.
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My Nime 2009 demo of both chess-to-music and Scrabble-to-music goes on Friday. If anyone cares to try out the latter, it is at my faculty music page. You can run it as an applet if you want, although the browser eats up too much screen space. Downloading the stand-alone Java application is probably better. There's a README.
Scrabble-to-MIDI uses whatever Midi comes installed on the machine, just using the canned voices as "found instruments." To me it looks better on XP but definitely sounds better on OSX (which is how I am demoing it), and it sounds better than I expected. Playing the config parameters well takes some practice. I'll be playing this at the start of SS09.
Back in a few days with the NIME2009 demo report.
EDIT: Fixed a broken link.
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My next move after one upcoming revision to Scrabble-to-MIDI (performed for SS09) to make time more elastic, is to design a game specifically oriented towards music generation. Has anybody read either of these books? They seem pretty promising.
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